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Re:Netflix's Bow to Saudi Censors Comes at a Cost to Free Sp... by 21 on Monday January 07, 2019 @09:03AM (#18845108)
Free speech is a Western value.

Tying to impose it on the rest of the world is yet another colonization.

True diversity is allowing other cultures to live by different values.

Re:Netflix's Bow to Saudi Censors Comes at a Cost to Free Sp... by adamc on Monday January 07, 2019 @09:10AM (#18845186)
The diversity of allowing theocracies isn't one I am particularly interested in supporting.
Re:Netflix's Bow to Saudi Censors Comes at a Cost to Free Sp... by pbhjpbhj on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:01AM (#18845633)
Whatever "true diversity" is it's not worth having unless _people_ can choose their own values to some extent, IMO.

Fascist cultures should not be tolerated, fascist people should (inasmuch as their fascism does not impact others against those other's own wills, of course).

Demanding SA allow freedom for individuals to exercise their own conscience would be supporting a morally defensible notion of diversity.

One major problem is that some religions (eg Islam) and religious groups (eg Mormons) have central ideologies that are antithetical to freedom of conscience; making them incompatible with many freedoms associated with democratic societies (speech, thought, association).

Re:Netflix's Bow to Saudi Censors Comes at a Cost to Free Sp... by tangent128 on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:53AM (#18846126)
That's just another way of saying "you should tolerate intolerance", and the fallacy is the same.

Saudi Arabia and China are not cultural monoliths. Their ruling classes may have a cultural value of stamping out dissenting values, but their subcultures so targeted would certainly disagree.

Re:Netflix's Bow to Saudi Censors Comes at a Cost to Free Sp... by yakshaving_jgt on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:09AM (#18845696)
In much of MENA, female genital mutilation is a cultural norm.

Are you saying that “true diversity” is allowing small girls to have their clitorises cut off?

Re:Netflix's Bow to Saudi Censors Comes at a Cost to Free Sp... by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:00AM (#18845628)
So, true diversity in your opinion requires that we allow some king to torture and kill people who are too diverse?